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Quick-start build instructions
------------------------------
1) Configure the package:
./configure
2) Compile it:
make
3) Install it:
make install
This final step may require temporary root access (eg. with sudo) if
you don't have write permission to the directory in which cairo will
be installed.
NOTE: If you are working with source from git/cvs rather than from a tar
file, then you should use ./autogen.sh in place of ./configure
anywhere it is mentioned in these instructions.
More detailed build instructions
--------------------------------
1) Configure the package
The first step in building cairo is to configure the package by
running the configure script. The configure script attempts to
automatically detect as much as possible about your system. So,
you should primarily just accept its defaults by running:
./configure
The configure script does accept a large number of options for
fine-tuning its behavior. See "./configure --help" for a complete
list. The most commonly used options are discussed here.
--prefix=PREFIX
This option specifies the directory under which the software
should be installed. By default configure will choose a
directory such as /usr/local. If you would like to install
cairo to some other location, pass the director to configure
with the --prefix option. For example:
./configure --prefix=/opt/cairo
would install cairo into the /opt/cairo directory. You could
also choose a prefix directory within your home directory if
you don't have write access to any system-wide directory.
After installing into a custom prefix, you will need to set
some environment variables to allow the software to be
found. Assuming the /opt/cairo prefix and assuming you are
using the bash shell, the following environment variables
should be set:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/cairo/lib/pkgconfig
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/cairo/lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
(NOTE: On mac OS X, at least, use DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in place
of LD_LIBRARY_PATH above.)
--enable-ps
--enable-pdf
--enable-quartz
--enable-atsui
--enable-xcb
--enable-glitz
--enable-beos
--enable-os2
Some of cairo's backends are marked as experimental and will
not be built by default. If you would like to build and
experiment with these backends, you will need to pass one of
the above options to the configure script. You may need to
have certain libraries installed first as discussed in the
dependencies section of the README file.
--disable-xlib
--disable-win32
--disable-png
--disable-freetype
Cairo's configure script detects the libraries needed to build
each stable backend, and when it finds them, enables each
backend. If you would like to override this detection and
disable a backend, (even when it would be possible to build
it), use one of the options above to disable the backend.
2) Compile the package:
This step is very simple. Just:
make
The Makefiles included with cairo are designed to work on as many
different systems as possible.
When cairo is compiled, you can also run some automated tests of
cairo with:
make check
NOTE: Some versions of X servers will cause the -xlib tests to
report failures in make check even when cairo is working just
fine. If you see failures in nothing but -xlib tests, please
examine the corresponding -xlib-out.png images and compare them to
the -ref.png reference images (the -xlib-diff.png images might also
be useful). If the results seem "close enough" please do not report
a bug against cairo as the "failures" you are seeing are just due
to subtle variations in X server implementations.
3) Install the package:
The final step is to install the package with:
make install
If you are installing to a system-wide location you may need to
temporarily acquite root access in order to perform this
operation. A good way to do this is to use the sudo program:
sudo make install
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